Once again Hard Rain by Tony Hoagland graces the number 1 position on the UK Chapbook Chart. Hard Rain is consistently the most popular of chapbooks in the UK and remains a favourite amongst readers throughout the world.

Tony Hoagland is still little known in Europe and yet he made his way into the prestigious British encyclopaedia Contemporary Poets at a very early stage. Since then he has also published Donkey Gospel and What Narcissism Means to Me, books that have won him a swathe of awards in North America. As these titles suggest, Hoagland’s characteristic tone is marked by a deep devotion to hedonism in all its manifestations, humour being one of its mainstays.

New entries this week are Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde at No.4, The Copper Cascade by Kneel Downe at No.8 and Claret Consulting 2016 Chapbook: Musings on Economics, Politics & Infrastructure by Brian Desilets at No.10.